Improvement in washing-machines



J. 1. SMITH 8L 0. B. CAMP. Improvement in Washing-Machines. Y N0.128,076. PatentedJune18,-1872.

a igl UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB J. SMITH AND CHARLES B. CAMP, OF MIDDLEBURY, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,076, dated June 18,1872.

Specification describing a new and useful Improvement inWashing-Machines, invented by JAooB J. SMITH and CHARLES B. CAMP, ofMiddlebury, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana.

Figure 1 is a side View of our improved washing-machine, parts beingbroken away to show the construction. Fig. 2 is a detail verticalcross-section of the same taken through the line 00 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3is a detail horizontal section of one of the uprights and its glidingbearing taken through the line 3 y,

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Our invention has for its object to furnish an improved washing-machine,simple in construction, convenient in use, effective in operation, andinexpensive in construction, be ing so constructed that it maybe securedto the bottom of an ordinary wash-tub; and it consists in theconstruction and combination of various parts of the machine, ashereinafter more fully described.

A are two standards, which are connected near their lower ends by aboard or wide bar, B, and near their middle parts by a roundor roller,0, which also acts as a guard to prevent the clothes entering betweenthe rollers from becoming entangled with those coming out. Upon theupper ends of the standards A are formed tenons, a, which enter mortisesin the end parts of the bar or board D, that connects the upper ends ofthe said standards where the said tenons are secured in place bydetachable pins E, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. F are three smallcorrugated rollers, which are pivoted in the are of a circle to thestandards A, as shown in Fig. 2. To the standards A, above the rollersF, is pivoted the large corrugated roller G, the journals of whichrevolve in bearings H, inserted in slots in the upper parts of thestandards A. The edges of the standards A at the sides of the slots arebeveled off, as shown in Fig. 3, and the bearings H are made withinclined flanges, as shown in Fig. 3, to keep the said hearings in placein said slots. The bearings H are made in two parts, the lower partbeing stationary and the upper part being movable, to enable the rollerCr to rise as a thicker part of the clothes is passing between therollers Gr and F. The upper part of the bearings H is held down, to givethe required pressure to. the clothes passing between the rollers, bycoiled wire springs I, which are placed in circular grooves formed inthe standards A at the sides of the slots in said standardsA. The upperends of the coiled springs I rest against the board or bar D. By thisarrangement, by removing the pins E, releasing the cross-bar D, thelarge roller G may be raised, to allow the clothes to be taken outshould any part of them become entangled in the rollers. One of thejournals of the roller G projects, and to it is attached acrank, J, foroperating the machine. K is an upright or post, the lower end of whichis made broad or flaring, which is designed to be secured to the centerof the bottom of the tub. The standard K passes up through a hole in thecenter of the cross-bar B, and is slotted to receive the wedge-key L, bywhich the framework of the machine is secured to said stand-- purposeset forth.

JACOB J. SMITH. 7 CHARLES B. CAMP.

Witnesses ALMON S. CULBERTSON, WILLIAM ECKER.

